Still have a mail-in ballot for this year's election? Here's what to do

Election Day is just two days away, but if you still haven’t sent in your mail-in ballot, you still have time to cast that vote. Vote-by-mail applications in the state of Illinois closed in the days leading up to the election, but for those voters who have already received ballots and have not yet returned them to their local election authority, you may want to reconsider just dropping it into a mailbox. That’s because mail-in ballots are only valid if they are postmarked by Election Day, which falls on Tuesday. Even if you drop the ballot into a mailbox on Monday or Tuesday, there is no guarantee that the ballot will be postmarked in time due to changes in the way the United States Postal Service postmarks mail. Instead, there are several ways you can either return your ballot, or cast your vote in a different way. Find a Certified Election Dropbox Many Chicago-area counties have dropboxes that voters can use to submit their mail-in ballots before Election Day. You can